Definition of 'bargain for'

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bargain for

or bargain on

phrasal verb

If you have not bargained for or bargained on something that happens, you did not expect it to happen and so feel surprised or worried by it.

The effects of this policy were more than the government had bargained for. [VERBPHRASE noun]

bargain

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bargain for in British

verb

(intr, preposition)

to expect; anticipate (a style of behaviour, change in fortune, etc)

he got more than he bargained for

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bargain for in American

to try to get cheaply

to expect; anticipate; count on

: also bargain on

bargain

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They had certainly got more of an eyeful than they had bargained for. Times, Sunday Times (2011)He got more than he bargained for. The Sun (2012)What she hadn't bargained for was where many of them would come from. Times, Sunday Times (2016)

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Definition of bargain for from the Collins English Dictionary

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